Still, the inventor of cold fusion wouldn’t be also making refrigerators and TVs that will use the power.
I think he’s suggesting that inventing groundbreaking technology is the purview of brilliant scientific work. Applying that science is the purview of merely smart scientific work and is also a different industrial sector. this technology would be useful for motorcycles, sure, but it would also be useful for thousands or more other industries, many infinitely more lucrative, like aerospace, transportation, remote research, energy production/storage, computing, and on and on. Then there’s the near-infinite consumer applications.
It does seem weird that the same people with the ambition to improve on a major scientific technological barrier would do so for the dramatically less ambitious goal of advancing leisure motorsports.
Still, the inventor of cold fusion wouldn’t be also making refrigerators and TVs that will use the power.
I think he’s suggesting that inventing groundbreaking technology is the purview of brilliant scientific work. Applying that science is the purview of merely smart scientific work and is also a different industrial sector. this technology would be useful for motorcycles, sure, but it would also be useful for thousands or more other industries, many infinitely more lucrative, like aerospace, transportation, remote research, energy production/storage, computing, and on and on. Then there’s the near-infinite consumer applications.
It does seem weird that the same people with the ambition to improve on a major scientific technological barrier would do so for the dramatically less ambitious goal of advancing leisure motorsports.